Keeper, Department of Coins and Medals, Fitzwilliam Museum
Reader in Numismatics and Monetary History, University of Cambridge
Fellow, Gonville and Caius College

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Responsibilities and research interests

Mark Blackburn is Head of the Department of Coins and Medals
and is particularly concerned with the Medieval and Oriental coins and
historical medals. He directs the Medieval European Coinage project and
Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds from the British Isles. He teaches
numismatics and medieval monetary history to students of History,
Archaeology, Art History, and Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, and
he supervises research students in Early Medieval numismatics.

His research interests include the monetary history of Early
Medieval Europe, with particular focus on Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman
coinages, and the Viking coinages of Scandinavia and the British Isles;
the recording and analysis of single-finds and their application to
monetary circulation.